Just like any new interface that would just require some getting used to. Granted, it's a physical thing versus just a visual/mental thing to get used to but it's still just a normal process.
The whole article was crap. Poorly written, misunderstood concepts of the films used as examples, and generally fully of mistakes. I'm surpirsed there hasn't been more discussion of that yet.
That's my point. I have several bootable disks and when they start to boot, the Vista boot loader somehow is ignoring them and running into vista anyway. I see the status message "booting from cdrom" and then the damn thing goes into vista anyway. I don't know if it's a hardware issue or not, so I'm trying to find as many options as possible to verify what the hell is causing it. Thanks for your comment though. I was planning to download fips or something and just wipe the drive clean, so that's the next step.
You can't? What were all those Mandrake disks I burned then? I'm not being a smartass, I'm being serious. I thought they were iso images...And they were definitely bootable. I just have them all locked away now, so I tried Ubuntu and their "howto" file says download the iso, make it bootable by checking the "bootable" box or whatever using your burner, and get started.
So how do I uninstall Vista on a laptop when Vista keeps stepping on my boot disks? That's completely OT I know, but I've been banging my head against the wall. I need XP and can't install it now...
The arts I mentioned have nothing to do with what art professors teach? Have you ever taken any art classes? Art history classes? I think you will find there are plenty of professors teaching stuff that directly applies to the arts I mentioned. You think CGI doesn't rely on any known art techniques from the generations of artists that came before? You think there are no classes on computer art and its history or techniques?
And my point wasn't about the arts specifically, but about the technology that is behind the arts. Withot those arts, many people simply wouldn't have jobs. If those are the "unemployable" you're talking about, I'll agree. Otherwise, you're just trolling.
Your point is possibly reasonable, that more physics is generally good for a physicist. The problem is that most of the difficult physics isn't covered at a lower level (undergrad) physics education. Most physicists don't learn important (far above the basics of statics and dynamics) physics until they are at a graduate level. What they learn in their undergraduate training, apart from physics, can offer them a different perspective. That's what's important about learning the arts (or any subject other than your major). Being able to approach a problem from a different perspective. Being able to work a problem from a new angle can provide insight into new solutions. Cross training is important.
Think of a programmer. Would you rather hire a programmer who can code in C, Java, C#, and C++ but does that really really well, or would you rather hire a programmer who can code in C, Java, C#, and C++ well who also understands complex math and can write good documentation. Most people would answer that they would hire the second guy because he has a larger skill set, even if he isn't quite as good at the programming aspects because he brings more to the table.
"know I have yet to have a paper that counted for my entire grade. I would like one, but only because my university doesn't use TurnItIn or anything of the sort...yet."
Take some philosphy classes. All my philosophy classes (I took two or three) had two papers and that was the entire grade.
This is a horrible troll I'm ashamed to respond to, but I will anyway.
"art/theatre...a topic that mainly exists to keep otherwise unemployable people employed"
Have you considered how many technical jobs have been created in the last 100 years by the arts industry? Cameras, video cameras, special effects, CGI... all of these are jobs created by a "topic that mainly exists to keep otherwise unemployable people employed" and those are just a few of the jobs you can mention. How many tech weenies have spin-off jobs designing chips for the digital camera industry. How many of those camera chip designers have worked on projects intended for scientific uses, like Hubble or similar technologies. Without an obvious use for cameras the field of optics would have been essentially standing still from a hundred years ago. Sure, you would have gotten a few advances from people doing astronomy and their needs, but ew've far surpassed that through the overlap of arts and science.
If you think the arts are just a way to keep the "unemployable" employed, you are very shortsighted.
"Things like physics require INTENSE concentration, and can be all consuming."
Tell that to Einstein. Yes, an extreme example, but he was an extremely well rounded individual, and he often said his ruminations on other subjects led him in enlightening directions in his mathematical/physics concepts.
Very few officers in the military come from the Acadamies. And I never said I wouldn't adhere to an honor code, just that it isn't part of the "Air Force" but rather a wing of the Air Force called the Air Force Academy.
"but I find it very difficult to believe that anybody cheated their way through a degree; not an engineering degree anyhow."
I've attended 7 different college level schools. If you honestly believe people can't cheat their way to a degree, you're wearing blinders. Plenty of people do it all the time. I've seen people at every school I've attended do it, with the exception of one, and that was because people were active duty military members and were being paid to be there (and could be put in jail for cheating, not just expelled.)
I informed a professor at one school, during a final, that several students were cheating. I then spoke with him after the class to find out why he didn't investigate and his answer was "it's an undergraduate course, it doesn't matter."
Several of us took it to the Dean of the Engineering School and were told basically they wouldn't investigate unless the professor agreed that there was a need to do so. Obviously he didn't agree or we wouldn't have been there. The people who cheated all got As in the course and generally continued that trend (with As and Bs) to graduate.
Does it really matter in the end? Who knows...I know those people are all getting paid well, and apparently their employers don't mind that they don't have all the knowlege they supposedly should. I think that points the finger more accurately, the fact that most college level courses teach you things (even in engineering) that you will never need on the job. Having a strong basis of theoretical understanding is great, but it isn't really necessary for most jobs.
In the end the cheating didn't really hurt me much though I did get a lower grade as a result of no curve (but it could be said that's my fault for not studying hard enough to do well in the first place) and it apparently hasn't really hurt society. Is it a bad precedent, yes. Is it the end of the world, no.
No one actually threatened him with the electric chair. That's an idiom meaning he will be tried harshly, not actually receive the death penalty. Seriously, people are making a big deal out of some (state level) bonehead saying "he will fry".
The guy knew what he was doing and should face punishment. Is the charge harsh? Sure. But when you think about what he could do with the access he gained, the possibility of those kinds of punishments seems reasonable. How much are your State's secrets worth to your government? Hell, if he broke into your computer and had access to your financial records, how much would that be worth? Multiply that by your entire population (somewhat exxagerated, sure) and how much is it worth then?
First, you are aware that learning new things doesn't necessarily mean losing old things you're not using anymore, aren't you?
I know how to walk and talk at the same time. I've learned calculus but I can still write this and I can sometimes even do more than one thing at a time. As for requiring resources for specific extra-sensory processing, how is that different than any other multitasking we do now? It takes training, but most humans are capable of it on some level. Obviously some are better than others, but if a pilot can be trained to use a night-vision monocle to fly a helicopter and read instruments with his other eye, I'd bet most people can learn how to incorporate similar objects into everyday life.
Second, why would version 2 require new training from version 1, or why in fact would any training be required? If the device is simply changing the input stimulus into something we can use in a different way but similar to something we already do, how would the training be so difficult? More importantly, we already "retrain" every time there's a new tool out anyway. Just look at how we adjust to new phones, new operating systems, new technologies in general. We are retraining every day. Why stop now?
In order for other students to see my paper, they would have had to have access to it, which would mean that I gave them access to it for one reason or another.
The point is it was my choice to give, not someone elses.
Heavy group projects invariably mean I'm helping some one else get a better grade, just so they can't bring mine down.
Group projects don't work until you've already sloughed off the dregs that are going to be gone by the end of second year. And they don't work at all in high school classes where kids are mandated to go to school.
They can be learning experiences, but usually the workload is uneven because the overachiever does the same as usual and the underachiever does the same as usual. The only difference is now the underachiever passes because the overachiever made up the difference in workload.
I didn't turn 18 until several months after I graduated high school. I do believe "most" of my classmates were 18 before graduation, but that's fairly irrelevant as most are not 18 when the start their senior year, which implies they were minors when they would (likely) enter into said contract.
It isn't infringing for a library to "catalog or index" a work for retrieval because they aren't storing complete copies (generally). If they do store those copies, it is for public use (non-profit) and also they presumably paid for the original work in the first place.
The students "gave a copy" to TurnitIn presumably because they were forced to. Being coerced negates most contract negotiations when it comes to the courts. Ask any defense lawyer how many of their client's confessions were not admissable because of police behavior...and that's criminal activity.
I would guess, though I don't know how Turnitin cites plagiarized works, that Turnitin does in fact send some portion of the plagiarized work back to the professor with the query or how would the professor actually know the work truly was plagiarized? Just citing the work isn't enough to prevent copyright infringement in a case like that, I believe.
Almost all the office cleaning companies I've seen over the last few years are using cyclones. They're not Dyson's but they're certainly bagless vacuums. Just usually the backpack canister style ones with a 4 foot hose and "head" rather than a direct drive brush.
They use something different for heavier duty cleaning, but the one I saw looked like a floor waxing mashine with brushes instead of pads and a big canister on top.
That's still $4600 US more than I'll pay for a vacuum cleaner. I have better things to waste my money on than saving myself 15 minutes. Seriously, you know how long you'd have to work (unless you're Bill Gates) to recover that investment?
Easier, sure. How the law is written? Not so sure. According to the law (or at least according to Google's interpretation of the law) it is Viacom's responsibility to police every site.
From Google's perspective, they acted according to the wishes of the copyright owner and removed the materials. Then Viacom said, "oh wait, those aren't ours." but filed a lawsuit anyway for material that was removed saying it wasn't done "fast enough" or something like that.
I'm going to have to disagree with you on this one.
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Just like any new interface that would just require some getting used to. Granted, it's a physical thing versus just a visual/mental thing to get used to but it's still just a normal process.
The whole article was crap. Poorly written, misunderstood concepts of the films used as examples, and generally fully of mistakes. I'm surpirsed there hasn't been more discussion of that yet.
Dude, that's my stuff. I was wondering where I left it. I'll be over today to pick it up.
That's my point. I have several bootable disks and when they start to boot, the Vista boot loader somehow is ignoring them and running into vista anyway. I see the status message "booting from cdrom" and then the damn thing goes into vista anyway. I don't know if it's a hardware issue or not, so I'm trying to find as many options as possible to verify what the hell is causing it. Thanks for your comment though. I was planning to download fips or something and just wipe the drive clean, so that's the next step.
You can't? What were all those Mandrake disks I burned then? I'm not being a smartass, I'm being serious. I thought they were iso images...And they were definitely bootable. I just have them all locked away now, so I tried Ubuntu and their "howto" file says download the iso, make it bootable by checking the "bootable" box or whatever using your burner, and get started.
What did I miss?
So how do I uninstall Vista on a laptop when Vista keeps stepping on my boot disks? That's completely OT I know, but I've been banging my head against the wall. I need XP and can't install it now...
The arts I mentioned have nothing to do with what art professors teach? Have you ever taken any art classes? Art history classes? I think you will find there are plenty of professors teaching stuff that directly applies to the arts I mentioned. You think CGI doesn't rely on any known art techniques from the generations of artists that came before? You think there are no classes on computer art and its history or techniques?
And my point wasn't about the arts specifically, but about the technology that is behind the arts. Withot those arts, many people simply wouldn't have jobs. If those are the "unemployable" you're talking about, I'll agree. Otherwise, you're just trolling.
Your point is possibly reasonable, that more physics is generally good for a physicist. The problem is that most of the difficult physics isn't covered at a lower level (undergrad) physics education. Most physicists don't learn important (far above the basics of statics and dynamics) physics until they are at a graduate level. What they learn in their undergraduate training, apart from physics, can offer them a different perspective. That's what's important about learning the arts (or any subject other than your major). Being able to approach a problem from a different perspective. Being able to work a problem from a new angle can provide insight into new solutions. Cross training is important.
Think of a programmer. Would you rather hire a programmer who can code in C, Java, C#, and C++ but does that really really well, or would you rather hire a programmer who can code in C, Java, C#, and C++ well who also understands complex math and can write good documentation. Most people would answer that they would hire the second guy because he has a larger skill set, even if he isn't quite as good at the programming aspects because he brings more to the table.
"know I have yet to have a paper that counted for my entire grade. I would like one, but only because my university doesn't use TurnItIn or anything of the sort...yet."
Take some philosphy classes. All my philosophy classes (I took two or three) had two papers and that was the entire grade.
This is a horrible troll I'm ashamed to respond to, but I will anyway.
"art/theatre...a topic that mainly exists to keep otherwise unemployable people employed"
Have you considered how many technical jobs have been created in the last 100 years by the arts industry? Cameras, video cameras, special effects, CGI... all of these are jobs created by a "topic that mainly exists to keep otherwise unemployable people employed" and those are just a few of the jobs you can mention. How many tech weenies have spin-off jobs designing chips for the digital camera industry. How many of those camera chip designers have worked on projects intended for scientific uses, like Hubble or similar technologies. Without an obvious use for cameras the field of optics would have been essentially standing still from a hundred years ago. Sure, you would have gotten a few advances from people doing astronomy and their needs, but ew've far surpassed that through the overlap of arts and science.
If you think the arts are just a way to keep the "unemployable" employed, you are very shortsighted.
"Things like physics require INTENSE concentration, and can be all consuming."
Tell that to Einstein. Yes, an extreme example, but he was an extremely well rounded individual, and he often said his ruminations on other subjects led him in enlightening directions in his mathematical/physics concepts.
Very few officers in the military come from the Acadamies. And I never said I wouldn't adhere to an honor code, just that it isn't part of the "Air Force" but rather a wing of the Air Force called the Air Force Academy.
"but I find it very difficult to believe that anybody cheated their way through a degree; not an engineering degree anyhow."
I've attended 7 different college level schools. If you honestly believe people can't cheat their way to a degree, you're wearing blinders. Plenty of people do it all the time. I've seen people at every school I've attended do it, with the exception of one, and that was because people were active duty military members and were being paid to be there (and could be put in jail for cheating, not just expelled.)
I informed a professor at one school, during a final, that several students were cheating. I then spoke with him after the class to find out why he didn't investigate and his answer was "it's an undergraduate course, it doesn't matter."
Several of us took it to the Dean of the Engineering School and were told basically they wouldn't investigate unless the professor agreed that there was a need to do so. Obviously he didn't agree or we wouldn't have been there. The people who cheated all got As in the course and generally continued that trend (with As and Bs) to graduate.
Does it really matter in the end? Who knows...I know those people are all getting paid well, and apparently their employers don't mind that they don't have all the knowlege they supposedly should. I think that points the finger more accurately, the fact that most college level courses teach you things (even in engineering) that you will never need on the job. Having a strong basis of theoretical understanding is great, but it isn't really necessary for most jobs.
In the end the cheating didn't really hurt me much though I did get a lower grade as a result of no curve (but it could be said that's my fault for not studying hard enough to do well in the first place) and it apparently hasn't really hurt society. Is it a bad precedent, yes. Is it the end of the world, no.
You mean Air Force Academy honor code, I think. I don't recall that ever being part of my oath when I joined active duty.
No one actually threatened him with the electric chair. That's an idiom meaning he will be tried harshly, not actually receive the death penalty. Seriously, people are making a big deal out of some (state level) bonehead saying "he will fry".
The guy knew what he was doing and should face punishment. Is the charge harsh? Sure. But when you think about what he could do with the access he gained, the possibility of those kinds of punishments seems reasonable. How much are your State's secrets worth to your government? Hell, if he broke into your computer and had access to your financial records, how much would that be worth? Multiply that by your entire population (somewhat exxagerated, sure) and how much is it worth then?
First, you are aware that learning new things doesn't necessarily mean losing old things you're not using anymore, aren't you?
I know how to walk and talk at the same time. I've learned calculus but I can still write this and I can sometimes even do more than one thing at a time. As for requiring resources for specific extra-sensory processing, how is that different than any other multitasking we do now? It takes training, but most humans are capable of it on some level. Obviously some are better than others, but if a pilot can be trained to use a night-vision monocle to fly a helicopter and read instruments with his other eye, I'd bet most people can learn how to incorporate similar objects into everyday life.
Second, why would version 2 require new training from version 1, or why in fact would any training be required? If the device is simply changing the input stimulus into something we can use in a different way but similar to something we already do, how would the training be so difficult? More importantly, we already "retrain" every time there's a new tool out anyway. Just look at how we adjust to new phones, new operating systems, new technologies in general. We are retraining every day. Why stop now?
Because that would be so much better than actually having sex? I'll take reality thank you.
In order for other students to see my paper, they would have had to have access to it, which would mean that I gave them access to it for one reason or another.
The point is it was my choice to give, not someone elses.
Heavy group projects invariably mean I'm helping some one else get a better grade, just so they can't bring mine down.
Group projects don't work until you've already sloughed off the dregs that are going to be gone by the end of second year. And they don't work at all in high school classes where kids are mandated to go to school.
They can be learning experiences, but usually the workload is uneven because the overachiever does the same as usual and the underachiever does the same as usual. The only difference is now the underachiever passes because the overachiever made up the difference in workload.
I didn't turn 18 until several months after I graduated high school. I do believe "most" of my classmates were 18 before graduation, but that's fairly irrelevant as most are not 18 when the start their senior year, which implies they were minors when they would (likely) enter into said contract.
Your sister's the reason this will go to court. This is all about her rights to a fair education and the right to her own work.
It isn't infringing for a library to "catalog or index" a work for retrieval because they aren't storing complete copies (generally). If they do store those copies, it is for public use (non-profit) and also they presumably paid for the original work in the first place.
The students "gave a copy" to TurnitIn presumably because they were forced to. Being coerced negates most contract negotiations when it comes to the courts. Ask any defense lawyer how many of their client's confessions were not admissable because of police behavior...and that's criminal activity.
I would guess, though I don't know how Turnitin cites plagiarized works, that Turnitin does in fact send some portion of the plagiarized work back to the professor with the query or how would the professor actually know the work truly was plagiarized? Just citing the work isn't enough to prevent copyright infringement in a case like that, I believe.
No school owns your research unless they're paying you for it. At least not in the US. Especially thesis work.
Almost all the office cleaning companies I've seen over the last few years are using cyclones. They're not Dyson's but they're certainly bagless vacuums. Just usually the backpack canister style ones with a 4 foot hose and "head" rather than a direct drive brush.
They use something different for heavier duty cleaning, but the one I saw looked like a floor waxing mashine with brushes instead of pads and a big canister on top.
That's still $4600 US more than I'll pay for a vacuum cleaner. I have better things to waste my money on than saving myself 15 minutes. Seriously, you know how long you'd have to work (unless you're Bill Gates) to recover that investment?
Easier, sure. How the law is written? Not so sure. According to the law (or at least according to Google's interpretation of the law) it is Viacom's responsibility to police every site.
From Google's perspective, they acted according to the wishes of the copyright owner and removed the materials. Then Viacom said, "oh wait, those aren't ours." but filed a lawsuit anyway for material that was removed saying it wasn't done "fast enough" or something like that.
I'm going to have to disagree with you on this one.